Open Anthropology Cooperative » This Week in the OAC

Nathan Dobson — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:08:59 +0000

Ederlezi:

A Romani celebration for the new season.

Polanyi:
and re-embedding gender.

Ainu and Hebrew:
Distant relations.

A brand new group:

Covering anthropological conceptions of children, health, resilience and coping…

Nathan Dobson — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:14:27 +0000

Best in show:

Stunning visual pieces on show from the members of the Visual Anthropology group.

Bursa calligraphy:
Join the sacral geography crowd.

Development policy and practice:
“There is a systematic failure to appreciate a) the value of long term engagement with local people in the planning and implementation of ‘development’ activities and b) the need to listen and learn as much as to tell and inform”. More…

On religion and popular culture:

Debaprasad Bandyopadhay and Avishek Ray talk about the [in]commensurability between religion and popular culture.

Nathan Dobson — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:57:24 +0000

Breaking bubbles:

Welcome to the world’s first online/offline collaborative symposium.

Informal economy:
Last chance to quiz John Conroy on the history of this idea.

Why Suzhi should go global:
Beating the anthropologist at their own game.

Nathan Dobson — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:07:36 +0000

NEW ONLINE SEMINAR starts April 16th:

John Conroy considers informality in market exchange and looks at three people who it could be said anticipated Keith Hart’s work on the informal economy in the 1970s. You can follow and participate in the discussion here.

Nathan Dobson — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:35:03 +0000

Living in America:

Russian speaking residents of New York.

Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner…:
The public and private spaces of London town.

Living on a prayer:

Health and spirituality and “self-reported recovery“.

Bektashi shrines in Turkey and the Balkans:
The overlapping of ritual practice.

Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov.

Nathan Dobson — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:20:41 +0000

El proyecto: Una “intrahistoria illustrada”

Movement for understanding Sangeet:
Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay shares his passion for Kirtana.

Tourism and the British Virgin Islands:
Join the tour.

Why I’m Leaving Goldman Sachs.

AND! More blog posts than you can shake a psycho-pharmaceutical drug at!

Nathan Dobson — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:45:26 +0000

NEW ONLINE SEMINAR:

What Did Kant Mean By and Why Did He Adopt a Cosmopolitan Point of View in History? Thomas Sturm‘s paper can be viewed here. The seminar will begin on the 19th of March.

Opening Anthropology:
AAA and the Quest for Open Access.

Rae Langton:
And “illocutionary disablement”.

And for when it all gets a bit too, well… boring.

Nathan Dobson — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:35:25 +0000

Equipped and ready for fieldwork:

The gear, gadgets and devices or technologies of research needed to carry out fieldwork.

Cooking up anthropology in Europe:
Where can you combine a career in cooking with anthropological research?

Sexual dimorphism in children:

Determining sex in pre-pubescent children.

Most active group:
Where’s the buzz @? Digital or Urban anthropology or The Human Economy?

Nathan Dobson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:40:35 +0000

Members only:

The OAC community strides towards the 6,000 mark. Flick through the members list to see some well-known and highly-regarded new recruits.

Critical realism:
Everything you need to know.

Creative destruction:
Post Katrina New Orleans as a triumph against material adversity.

What’s in a state?

“Language in colour”.

Nathan Dobson — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:52:11 +0000

NEW ONLINE SEMINAR:

The fact that old brain functions are recycled when people use money has broader implications for modern economic theory. Sascha Bourgeois-Gironde’s paper linking neuroscience and economic anthropology is available now over at the OAC Press. Further information and the results of the test can be found where the seminar will run from 30th Jan to 11th Feb.